Simple July 4th, 2013 Patriotic Thoughts

[runco]

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

 

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!  America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

 

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?  And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.  Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 

In God We Trust

 

This picture was taken standing on sacred ground, the Arizona Memorial looking up through the ceiling at the Flag (June 2012):
 

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[Garufa]

I have seen the flag from the same place and it really choked me up.  :usa:

[Hotrod]

Let freedom ring... Give me freedom or give me death..

[RED333]

Two Hundred Thirty Six years ago a few brave Men stood and said "No More".

Today we thank them for it.

[zgunbear]

I read the Declaration of Independence to my wife today.

She had never heard it read.

There is power in hearing the words you don't get from just seeing them.

it will be a new tradition for our family from here on out.

She said that it seems to have been written for what is happening now

The founders were pretty smart after all

[RED333]

I have seen the flag from the same place and it really choked me up.  :usa:

As I fear flying I might not ever see it, maybe one day.